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Carved from a stunning piece of mottled apple green jade, this large pendant depicts the head of a ruler or noble wearing an elaborate feathered...
$295 USD
With its extra-fine bands set in a soft matrix of white and reddish-orange, this rectangular translucent bead strung as a pendant. Dimensions: length: .5" (1.2...
$3,500 USD
finely carved carnelian with altar with two birds on either edge, with a ribbon in held between their beaks, with two dolphins in the lower field....
$325 USD
Hand-carved from mottled white and black quartz into an elongated cylinder bead meant to suspend horizontally. From ancient times, quartz crystals have been a source...
$750 USD
With its extra-fine bands set in a soft matrix of white and maroon-brown, agate was highly prized in ancient times for its scarcity, energy, and...
$2,000 USD
The Middle Kingdom is known for some of the most beautiful jewelry ever produced in ancient Egypt and this necklace is such an example. It...
$1,950 USD
carved from fiery carnelian, with suture and pronotum lines on the back, the base inscribed with a Happy New Year inscription: "May the opening of the year be...
$2,000 USD
The nb3w, (nekhau) pendant takes the form of a fish, that was attached to the plait of a young girl as a charm to prevent drowning....
$2,000 USD
A carnelian and shell bead necklace with small shell beads alternating with pairs of small carnelian beads, centered by a triangular banded agate pendant. Dimensions: Length:...
$325 USD
A superb cylindrical carnelian crystal, sourced by the ancient Inca people then painstakingly hand-carved, drilled and polished almost 700 years ago. Known as a stone of motivation...
$600 USD
With its extra-fine bands set in a soft matrix of white and maroon-brown, agate was highly prized in ancient times for its scarcity and beauty. ...
$1,250 USD $1,750 USD
This pretty necklace is composed of black and white core-formed beads highlighted by eye motifs and interspersed with small glass spacers; a fine rectangular agate bead acts as...
$5,500 USD
A popular style of Gothic ring, appearing in the 13th century and continuing into the 14th, the circular hoop finely decorated at the shoulders with...
$1,750 USD
With cross-hatched decoration on its closed wings, long tail feathers with incised lines, pierced for attachment. The dove is significant to Ancient Greek culture in...
$4,950 USD
This superb necklace features a total of fourty-two untreated, hand-polished garnets that beautifully contrast with five high karat gold pendants of stylized dolphins. The design is enhanced by...
$6,000 USD
Set in an 18 karat gold pendant with ruby cabochon and hung on a braided gold chain, an ancient Greek coin from Larissa, capital of Thessaly. The...
$1,950 USD
Perhaps most remarkable is the bright red heart-shaped garnet set in the granulated gold mount. This garnet form is well known in late Hellenistic jewellery and the...
$7,500 USD
A beautiful gold necklace with garnet, pearl, and glass elements. The centerpiece with three garnets set in round gold bezels with two hanging garnet beads,...
$400 USD
A very large and impressive barrel-shaped bead hand-carved from clear quartz, drilled longitudinally for suspension. From ancient times, quartz crystals have been a source of...
$350 USD
Condition: Intact with age appropriate wear, overall in very good condition. Dimensions: Height: 1 1/4 inches (3 cm) Provenance: Private Californian collection acquired in the 1960's.
$325 USD
With its rippling bands set in a soft matrix of white and orange-brown, this agate was highly prized in ancient times for its scarcity and...
$325 USD
With its rippling bands set in a soft matrix of white and orange-brown, this agate was highly prized in ancient times for its scarcity and...
$325 USD
With its extra-fine bands set in a soft matrix of white and orange-brown, this agate was highly prized in ancient times for its scarcity and...
$750 USD
With its extra-fine bands set in a soft matrix of white and maroon-brown, agate was highly prized in ancient times for its scarcity and beauty. ...
$500 USD
pierced vertically for attachment, finely carved with mythical man-bird, possibly depicting Anzû, a massive bird who can breathe fire and water. Condition: signs of wear to...
$1,500 USD
Finely carved on both sides, the obverse with tree of life flanked on either side by the letters "I" and "A", the reverse inscribed, mounted...
$2,750 USD
This lovely necklace comprises of ancient garnet and carnelian beads highlighted with 14K antique gold bead spacers. The stone beads are all ancient, whereas the...
$395 USD
For the ancients, lapis lazuli was the most highly prized and sought after of all crystals. With its deep, celestial blue, it remains the symbol of...
$5,000 USD
Each depicted nude with his wings upraised, his hands on his hips, a bandolier embellished with granulation worn across his chest, arching backwards, a cabochon...
$1,950 USD
A lovely pair of earrings in high karat gold, with drop-shaped garnets on pendants shaped like a krater, each krater inlaid with three additional garnets....
$950 USD
a pair of gold and garnet drop earrings, having an upper floral element decorated with a fine granulated border. Condition: Probably originally having a pearl...
$4,950 USD
a lovely pair of earrings, constructed in two sections of high carat gold; the set with three hand-polished circular gemstones, the central stone of amethyst is flanked...
$495 USD
Hand-crafted from bright lapis lazuli into a hexagonal bead with a small hole drilled for suspension. For the ancients, lapis lazuli was the most highly...
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of barrel-shaped form, the bead is hand-shaped and buffed to a softly gently polished surface. Strung as a necklace on an 18" sterling silver snake chain. Considered the...
$3,950 USD
the pectoral of rounded form with large cabochon carnelian centrally set within a high carat gold bezel edged with a rope border and with thirteen raised bosses all with rope...
$450 USD
Hand-cared into a disc from a beautiful translucent piece of amber and strung on a silver chain. Amber was highly regarded by the ancients for...
$475 USD
Amber was highly regarded by the ancients for healing and its power was used to treat all sorts of maladies from fever to leg pain. Hand-carved and...
$350 USD
Hand-carved from fine carnelian, this gorgeous barrel-shaped bead is polished to a high shine. Carnelian crystals such as this example were immensely popular in Greek and...
$3,500 USD
Exquisitely carved from white-blue chalcedony, the dog recumbent with its head laying on its outstretched front legs, the hind legs curled up under the body,...
$350 USD
The ancients thought rain-water and pure snow were essential for the formation of quartz crystal. Even up to the middle ages it was thought to be fossilized ice. Considered the...
$7,500 USD
This hollow Roman ring of high carat gold is set with a fine convex eye agate intaglio depicting a finely engraved figure of Fortuna, standing,...
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This lovely single strand gold link necklace is composed of thirty-one round polished ball beads, of deep red garnet, each with a gold caps to each terminal that...
$6,000 USD
the oval gem carved on two layers in high relief with a profile bust of Apollo, facing left, with almond-shaped eyes, a prominent nose and a...
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Finely carved intaglio featuring a single-headed eagle standing on a capital, wings folded, shown frontal with head raised in right profile, a wreath grasped in...
$1,500 USD
This would have to be one of the most charming intaglio rings offered for awhile. The intaglio is Roman, ca 2nd century with a well incised...
$650 USD
Hand-carved from soft white quartz, this stunning melon bead features seven ridges running the circumference and meeting at the perforation holes on each end providing its...
$2,500 USD
Comprising eight elongated beads and four flat round beads of smoky chalcedony, interspersed with fourteen lapis lazuli biconical beads that are flanked by 14K gold...
$450 USD
of biconical form in soft, light hues of purple, this lovely bead is a little irregular, as is to be expected from the hand-carving and polishing process used...
